Example sentences of "left for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 2 | Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England . |
| 3 | There was a morsel of consolation for the British team of Durie and Anne Hobbs before they left for home however , when they won the doubles contest against Petra Ritter and Paulus 2-6 , 7-6 , 6-3 , saving three match points in the process . |
| 4 | Dr Higgs is the only one left for those who believe someone must be seen to pay for the Cleveland controversy . |
| 5 | I left for the South Coast to join Lord Lovat and the invasion that was to come . ’ |
| 6 | Swinton left for Chicago , where he held talks with Adolf Berle on the first day of the conference . |
| 7 | When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school . |
| 8 | She was coming home for three whole weeks and by the time she left for London again the exam results would be nearly due . |
| 9 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 10 | Monday May 13th : C left for Leeds . |
| 11 | May 18th : C left for Leeds . |
| 12 | After meeting Prince Charles , Diana went back to school that November day to have a second shot at her O levels , which eluded her yet again , and the following month , at the age of sixteen and a half , she left for good . |
| 13 | Arty would see that she got his letter before she left for Seapark . |
| 14 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 15 | The next morning we left for Lhasa where 12 of us demonstrated for one hour . |
| 16 | After several months in hiding he crossed into Argentina and left for France . |
| 17 | Before she left for Strasbourg , Mrs Thatcher refused to budge in her hostility to the EC Social Charter and the Delors plan for economic and monetary union . |
| 18 | Before she left for Strasbourg , Mrs Thatcher refused to budge in her hostility to the EC Social Charter and the Delors plan for economic and monetary union . |
| 19 | In ancient times the manor had belonged to the Martyns before they left for Athelhampton . |
| 20 | Before he left for Nassau the Cabinet agreed that he should reject offers made by McNamara for Britain to continue the Skybolt development on a fifty-fifty cost-sharing basis with no guarantee that the US would buy the weapon in the end ; or to buy the lower-performance US Hound Dog missile for her V Force . |
| 21 | Before he left for his six weeks stay in Swindon that spring he had first called her ‘ sweet ’ , she recalled four months later , ‘ in the little passage , near the willows , near the farm ’ on Wandsworth Common . |
| 22 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 23 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 24 | I left for Bath . |
| 25 | This morning , before she left for work at eight o'clock , her mother had been friendly , quite chatty in fact . |
| 26 | He finally got his passport and left for Russia in 1958 . |
| 27 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 28 | Mr Browning , before he left for the south , complimented her on her handling of his friend . |
| 29 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 30 | Mrs Cook left for 15 minutes while she made lunch in the kitchen . ’ |